Man dies while watching The Conjuring 2 and body goes missing

A 65-year-old man died at the Sri Balasubramaniar Cinema in Tiruvannamalai, a town in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu while watching a screening of horror movie The Conjuring 2.

The cinema-goer, from Andhra Pradesh, had complained of chest pains during the film's climax, and fainted shortly afterwards.

He was rushed to the nearby Old Government Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

Medics ordered his body to be sent to the Tiruvannamalai Government Medical College Hospital for post-mortem but, according to the Times of India, the corpse, and the person charged with transporting it, have both gone missing.

The man's death and the disappearance of his body, has fuelled a wave of supernatural panic on social media that has accompanied the film's release.